Trump Nominates Colorado Judge To Fill Gorsuch Seat

President Trump has drawn upon his list of potential Supreme Court nominees to take the place of Neil Gorsuch who he nominated to the high court earlier this year. Colorado Supreme Court Justice Allison Eid was on a list of nominations the president sent to the Senate for consideration on Wednesday.

Eid would take the place of Gorsuch on the 10th Circuit United States Court of Appeals.

If Eid - who is seen as conservative - is confirmed, her replacement would be named by Governor Hickenlooper, a Democrat. (For more information on this and other local stories, subscribe to your local Patch for breaking news alerts.)

Edi was a clerk for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and for Judge Jerry Smith on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.

She worked for Arnold & Palmer in their Denver office on commercial and appellate cases before serving as Colorado's solicitor general.

She was appointed to the state Supreme Court in 2006 and then elected two years later.

She has also taught at the University of Colorado School of Law and was appointed by President George W. Bush in 2002 to serve on a committee documenting the history of the United States Supreme Court.

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